Ali Ahmad Hasan al-Atmah

Ali Ahmad Hasan al-Atmah (1947-15 May 1974) was a DFLP member and one of the perpetrators of the Ma'alot massacre of 1974.

Biography
Ali Ahmad Hasan al-Atmah was born in 1947 in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, and he joined the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). On 15 May 1974, al-Atmah, Ziyad Abdar-Rahim Ka'ik, and Muhammad Muslih Salim Dardour murdered 31 Israeli civilians, including 22 schoolchildren, in the Ma'alot massacre, killing the children with grenades before they could be killed when Israel Defense Forces soldiers stormed the school and killed the terrorists.